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What is the Interactionist view?

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Cicourel - police stereotypical assumptions and use of discretion means crime statistics are socially constructed

2
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What is the Marxist view?

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Chambliss - police are a RSA - crime stats are as such socially constructed

3
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What is the Feminist view?

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The police represent patriarchal ideology and as such crime is socially constructed
Walklate - secondary victimisation
Smart - courts hold patriarchal assumptions leading to rape victims being ‘on trial’

4
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Which theorist found institutional racism in the police?

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Holdaway and the Macpherson Enquiry; suggests that crime is socially constructed

5
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What other factors suggest crime is socially constructed?

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Police use of discretion, coughing, cuffing and recording practises
Courts use plea bargaining
Many High Court Judges/ Magistrates are publicly schooled